President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that after increase of the minimum wage in the country, increasing the level of pensions must take place.

"Once we raised the level of minimum wages, a single social contribution and income to the pension fund should grow. This will create opportunities to raise pensions for pensioners," Poroshenko said during the opening of clinics in the town of Kolomyia of the Ivano-Frankivsk region on Friday.